Ryan Gosling admits he was fired from The Lovely Bones for being too fat

Long before he became the sad-eyed muse to Derek Cianfrance, Ryan Gosling was just the thorn in Peter Jackson’s side, the actor whose “creative differences” with the director led to his much-publicized exit from The Lovely Bones and subsequent replacement by Mark Wahlberg. Although Gosling at the time denied he’d been fired, saying instead that he’d left after deciding that he simply felt he was too young to be playing a guy with a teenaged daughter—which would be perfectly reasonable—other reports were far less diplomatic, talking up Gosling as “demanding” and doing stuff like cutting his own hair and “fighting with wardrobe.” (“Peter couldn’t stand Ryan," said one source.)